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Hello friends, please bear with me as this might take a while 
As the story goes, my "mother-in-law" holds evenings where mostly women come along and have make-overs, massages, skin treatments etc and has asked me to take each ladies picture after they've had their treatments as a momento of how fabulous they looked etc. A mini-photoshoot is how she described it, and would be describing it to the clients.
Now, in the past i've just used 2 cheap flashguns with umbrellas for afew portraits but nothing particularly fancy, and seeing as they've never been for sustained use the batteries have been fine. I was looking at some other equipment for the job that i could plug in and use all evening if needs be (at this point i'm not fully sure how many women there are each evening, or for that matter how extensive these "mini-photoshoots" are likely to be.) I've already decided some sort of background is going to be needed but in my mind thats fairly straight forward
Now here's the questions:
I'm aware of flash/strobe kits and continuous lighting, which would you recommend?
From having a quick look round ebay the continuous lighting seems to be of lower wattage, but in practise how would this compare to 2 flashguns?
The flash kits seem to be higher power but then they get more complicated with triggers which isn't necessarily a problem, i use cheap wireless triggers for the flashes now. Do the triggers tend to come with generic fitments or is it some sort of specialised thing? At the moment the trigger is fitted to the hotshoe on the camera, i can only assume its the same thing? Will i still be able to use the flashes as fill?
The other thing thats worrying me is spending too much money on equipment, i don't want to be shelling out £500 for something that may get used for afew evenings, but at the same time if it takes off the evenings could be a regular thing so completely cheap and cheerful might not be the best idea either :bang:
Any help would be greatly appreciated
As the story goes, my "mother-in-law" holds evenings where mostly women come along and have make-overs, massages, skin treatments etc and has asked me to take each ladies picture after they've had their treatments as a momento of how fabulous they looked etc. A mini-photoshoot is how she described it, and would be describing it to the clients.
Now, in the past i've just used 2 cheap flashguns with umbrellas for afew portraits but nothing particularly fancy, and seeing as they've never been for sustained use the batteries have been fine. I was looking at some other equipment for the job that i could plug in and use all evening if needs be (at this point i'm not fully sure how many women there are each evening, or for that matter how extensive these "mini-photoshoots" are likely to be.) I've already decided some sort of background is going to be needed but in my mind thats fairly straight forward
Now here's the questions:
I'm aware of flash/strobe kits and continuous lighting, which would you recommend?
From having a quick look round ebay the continuous lighting seems to be of lower wattage, but in practise how would this compare to 2 flashguns?
The flash kits seem to be higher power but then they get more complicated with triggers which isn't necessarily a problem, i use cheap wireless triggers for the flashes now. Do the triggers tend to come with generic fitments or is it some sort of specialised thing? At the moment the trigger is fitted to the hotshoe on the camera, i can only assume its the same thing? Will i still be able to use the flashes as fill?
The other thing thats worrying me is spending too much money on equipment, i don't want to be shelling out £500 for something that may get used for afew evenings, but at the same time if it takes off the evenings could be a regular thing so completely cheap and cheerful might not be the best idea either :bang:
Any help would be greatly appreciated